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This paper presents an algorithm for indoor layout estimation and reconstruction through the fusion of a sequence of captured images and LiDAR data sets. In the proposed system, a movable platform collects both intensity images and 2D LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jieyu Li , Robert L Stevenson

Multi-sensor fusion (MSF) is widely used in autonomous vehicles (AVs) for perception, particularly for 3D object detection with camera and LiDAR sensors. The purpose of fusion is to capitalize on the advantages of each modality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhiyuan Cheng , Hongjun Choi , James Liang , Shiwei Feng , Guanhong Tao , Dongfang Liu , Michael Zuzak , Xiangyu Zhang

The fusion of LiDAR and camera sensors has demonstrated significant effectiveness in achieving accurate detection for short-range tasks in autonomous driving. However, this fusion approach could face challenges when dealing with long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Tanmoy Dam , Sanjay Bhargav Dharavath , Sameer Alam , Nimrod Lilith , Aniruddha Maiti , Supriyo Chakraborty , Mir Feroskhan

Integrating LiDAR and camera information in the bird's eye view (BEV) representation has demonstrated its effectiveness in 3D object detection. However, because of the fundamental disparity in geometric accuracy between these sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Guowen Zhang , Chenhang He , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

LiDAR-camera 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) combines rich visual semantics with accurate depth cues to improve trajectory consistency and tracking reliability. In practice, however, LiDAR and cameras operate at different sampling rates. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xian Wu , Yitao Wu , Xiaoyu Li , Zijia Li , Lijun Zhao , Lining Sun

In the field of autonomous driving, 3D object detection is a very important perception module. Although the current SOTA algorithm combines Camera and Lidar sensors, limited by the high price of Lidar, the current mainstream landing schemes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Kai Lei , Zhan Chen , Shuman Jia , Xiaoteng Zhang

Segmenting objects in an environment is a crucial task for autonomous driving and robotics, as it enables a better understanding of the surroundings of each agent. Although camera sensors provide rich visual details, they are vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Huawei Sun , Bora Kunter Sahin , Georg Stettinger , Maximilian Bernhard , Matthias Schubert , Robert Wille

3D pedestrian detection is a challenging task in automated driving because pedestrians are relatively small, frequently occluded and easily confused with narrow vertical objects. LiDAR and camera are two commonly used sensor modalities for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Juncong Fei , Wenbo Chen , Philipp Heidenreich , Sascha Wirges , Christoph Stiller

Accurate detection of obstacles in 3D is an essential task for autonomous driving and intelligent transportation. In this work, we propose a general multimodal fusion framework FusionPainting to fuse the 2D RGB image and 3D point clouds at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shaoqing Xu , Dingfu Zhou , Jin Fang , Junbo Yin , Zhou Bin , Liangjun Zhang

Feature fusion is a commonly used strategy in image retrieval tasks, which aggregates the matching responses of multiple visual features. Feasible sets of features can be either descriptors (SIFT, HSV) for an entire image or the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Shengjin Wang

In the field of 3D object detection tasks, fusing heterogeneous features from LiDAR and camera sensors into a unified Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation is a widely adopted paradigm. However, existing methods often suffer from imprecise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziying Song , Hongyu Pan , Feiyang Jia , Yongchang Zhang , Lin Liu , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Peiliang Wu , Caiyan Jia , Zheng Zhang , Yadan Luo

There has recently been growing interest in utilizing multimodal sensors to achieve robust lane line segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a novel multimodal fusion architecture from an information theory perspective, and demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhenhong Zou , Xinyu Zhang , Huaping Liu , Zhiwei Li , Amir Hussain , Jun Li

This paper focuses on the construction of stronger local features and the effective fusion of image and LiDAR data. We adopt different modalities of LiDAR data to generate richer features and present an adaptive and azimuth-aware network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yonglin Tian , Kunfeng Wang , Yuang Wang , Yulin Tian , Zilei Wang , Fei-Yue Wang

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for accurate 3D object detection in self-driving systems. Camera and LiDAR are the most commonly used sensors, and usually, their fusion happens at the early or late stages of 3D detectors with the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Javed Ahmad , Alessio Del Bue

Accurate camera-LiDAR fusion relies on precise extrinsic calibration, which fundamentally depends on establishing reliable cross-modal correspondences under potentially large misalignments. Existing learning-based methods typically project…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ni Ou , Zhuo Chen , Xinru Zhang , Junzheng Wang

3D object detection is a critical task in autonomous driving. Recently multi-modal fusion-based 3D object detection methods, which combine the complementary advantages of LiDAR and camera, have shown great performance improvements over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Hao Liu , Zhuoran Xu , Dan Wang , Baofeng Zhang , Guan Wang , Bo Dong , Xin Wen , Xinyu Xu

Depth-guided multimodal fusion combines depth information from visible and infrared images, significantly enhancing the performance of 3D reconstruction and robotics applications. Existing thermal-visible image fusion mainly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Zijun Li , Guoyu Lu

This paper proposes a depth estimation method using radar-image fusion by addressing the uncertain vertical directions of sparse radar measurements. In prior radar-image fusion work, image features are merged with the uncertain sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Masaya Kotani , Takeru Oba , Norimichi Ukita

This work presents a probabilistic deep neural network that combines LiDAR point clouds and RGB camera images for robust, accurate 3D object detection. We explicitly model uncertainties in the classification and regression tasks, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Di Feng , Yifan Cao , Lars Rosenbaum , Fabian Timm , Klaus Dietmayer

Depth information provides valuable insights into the 3D structure especially the outline of objects, which can be utilized to improve the semantic segmentation tasks. However, a naive fusion of depth information can disrupt feature and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Sun , Yuan Li , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao , Yanzhao Zhou